Edmund Birkhead

Edmund Birkhead, D.D. was Bishop of St Asaph from 1513 until 1518.[1]

Birkhead was born in Cheshire and educated at the University of Cambridge.[2] He was buried at Wrexham.[3]

References
  1. Hardy, T. Duffus. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae; or, a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Year MDCCXV, Corrected and Continued to the Present Time, Vol. I, "St. Asaph's". Oxford Univ. Press, 1854. Accessed 06 Jan 2018.
  2. "Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time" Edwards, E. p91: Wrexham, John Painter, 1801
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. The earliest times to 1752 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p158

"Birkhead of Brokehead, Edmund (BRKT513E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Dafydd ab Owain		 Bishop of St Asaph
1513–1518		 Succeeded by
Henry Standish


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